See <<magnetic saturation>>

1. The condition that occurs when a transistor is driven so that it becomes biased in the forward direction (the collector becomes positive with respect to the base, for example, in a pnp type of transistor).

2. See <<anode saturation>>

3. See <<temperature saturation>>

The maximum water vapor per unit volume that a parcel of air can contain at a given temperature.

1. The condition in which the decay rate of a given radionuclide is equal to its rate of production in an induced nuclear reaction.

2. The condition in which the voltage applied to an ionization chamber is high enough to collect all the ions formed by radiation but not high enough to produce ionization by collision.

See <<color saturation>>

The striking of a target area with such numbers of missiles that no place in it remains untouched by destruction.

The condition in which the partial pressure of any fluid constituent is equal to its maximum possible partial pressure under the existing environmental conditions, such that any increase in the amount of that constituent will initiate within it a change to a more condensed state.

1. The condition in which a further increase in some cause produces no further increase in the resultant effect.

2. The property exhibited by certain forces between particles wherein each particle can interact strongly with only a limited number of other particles, as in the forces between atoms in a molecule, and between nucleons in a nucleus.